Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-07-15
gold near Ishpeming continues. Specula-
tors are iocking there by the hundreds.

action OF the Otseeo village Doaru IN re-
jecting liquor bonds Same everywhere
| new railroad project is a line to run
east from Ashley through Chesanin &,
Flushing and Flint TO Port Huron or St
Clair.
Nj. " Rork, well known Michigan edu
Gator, has secured the superintendency of
Spokane Falls Washington territory, city
schools.
William L. Wells has been appointed
professor of law in the university, and
Melville NJ. Bigelow and w. b. Hammond'
law lecturers.
Chas Bascou, aged 10, of Sunfeld, Fa-
ton county, went 20 Alaska, Kent county,
to spend the Fourth with friends, and was
accidentally drowned.
John Barry, a melter in the Iron Bay
foundry near Marquette, had both legs
crushed 10y 2lton fly wheel falling on
him. lie cannot recover.
The Coldwater Republican says: "Only
twenty seven majority built the old court
house in 1917, and twenty seven majority
builds the new one in lsS7.n
The Michigan scoop company OF Battle
Creek have recently sent some bills OF
koOdS w tHl ANOi way pAONhhOiii'
Sweden, and Copenhagen, Denmark.
Angus Mckay, the bridge builder OF the
new Detroit, Lansing a Northern road
took fifteen grains of morphine at Grand
Rapids and died about an hour later.
John Minckler's saw mill at Iron river
was destroyed by fire recently. Mr.
Mincbler looses s., GO worth of lumber and
logs as well as the mill, which is worth
$4,000.
Theodore Luce and VIM Feeley Of Lin
den have been arrested on charge of
robbery, Lee Walters claiming that they
assaulted him at Flint and took $500
from him.
Galloway * Blackmans large mill at
Baldwin, Lake county, employing 100
hands, is soon TO shut down, having used
up all its available timber. 1t will be
serious blow 10 the town.
Ed Meisner. arrested III Muskegon for
the murder Of his father, has confessed
that he did shoot him, but says that his
father was trying to cut him with knife
and he shot the old man in self-defense.
Jackson is "iiggerinS" on getting the c.
j. a NJ. railroad now in process, of con
struction. jackson is asked 10 donate
$1,000. and a committee has been appoint
ed 10 see what can be done in the way OF
subscriptions.
The state encampment OF the Knights OF
Nacabees will be held in Grand Rapids
August q, o and II. Headquarters will be
al the Morton, and about 2OJ officers and
representatives, are expected 10 be present
from 8 tents in the state
\ former Lapeer county farmer, now In
Dakota, writes to a Lapeer friend: Yes
this is Gods own country because no
one else want, t. VIII be back a soon as
| can raise the money. Am 90 poorer
than when we left old Lapeer two years
ago.
). w. Jackson of White county, is feed
ing between l25 90 and 80, 900 silk worms.
and 10 DO the work requires the services
of seven or eight persons from II to IS
hours n day. The worms consumes several
hundred pounds of Usage orange leaves
daily.
Phoebe d. Rice of Alpine has commenced
suit against Joseph Platte and VIM. Gains
10y, Alpine township, Kent county, for
damages for assault and battery. laying
her claims at 81, 900 each. She alleges they
beat her so badly that she was made dan
gerously Ill.
The sheriff OF Nh kegon county has ar
rested Stal Nuesmer for shooting his GO
year old father about midnight on the
night Of the 9TH. They had trouble about
a trunk which the young man had moved
to a neighbours barn. Old man Nuesmer
died the next morning
William Anderson of Marquette was
carelessly handling a gun while under the
influence of liquor. Jack McGinnis eau
toned him about it, whereupon Anderson
shot him IN the neck. McGinnis died a
few hours later. The murderer was cap
tured and lodged in jail.
Lizzie Allen, beautiful young woman
OF -, living two miles north of Port Hope
huron county, took strychnine July Is. and
died two hours later The only reason
given for her act is that she had IA quarrel
with brother of Us years She comes O.
a rough family but was highly respect
able herself
A year-old daughter OF John Morris Of
Carrollton swallowed an ornamental hair
pin some days ago. IL was three inches
long and had big knob at the end and
stuck in the windpipe back of the breast
bone. Drs Ross and Freeman Of East
Saginaw successfully extracted il by cut
ting into the windpipe.
A terrible mine disaster occurred the
other day in the Sturgeon river Ben at
Metropolitan. a number of miners had
just got a blast ready when water rushed
into the mine SO fast that many could not
escape. Eight Italians are known 10 be in
the mine and are surely dead 1t will be
impossible to recover the bodies
John Alexander, an employee Of the s
y. Wilcox lumber company's mill at
Whitehall, was cut in two the other after
noon, his body falling in two pieces on
each side Of the edger saw. He was oiling
some machinery. when it caught his cloth
ing, throwing him upon the saws with the
above frightful result The deceased was
an unmarried man.
DR.. John l.. Near, resident Of Flat
Rock, Wayne county, aged 20 years, has
lived at that place nearly fifty three years
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